Dow Jones (DJIA) Today: McDonald's (MCD) Higher

The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be McDonald's (NYSE:MCD), which is sporting a 68-cent gain (+0.8%) bringing the stock to $91.77.

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average ( ^DJI) is trading up 22 points (+0.1%) at 17,035 as of Wednesday, Sep 10, 2014, 12:36 p.m. ET. During this time, 121 million shares of the 30 Dow components have changed hands vs. an average daily trading volume of 296.5 million. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,316 issues advancing vs. 1,661 declining with 150 unchanged.

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The Dow component leading the way higher looks to be McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), which is sporting a 68-cent gain (+0.8%) bringing the stock to $91.77. This single gain is lifting the Dow Jones Industrial Average by 5.15 points or roughly accounting for 23.4% of the Dow's overall gain. Volume for McDonald's currently sits at five million shares traded vs. an average daily trading volume of five million shares.

McDonald's has a market cap of $90.83 billion and is part of the services sector and leisure industry. Shares are down 6.1% year-to-date as of Tuesday's close. The stock's dividend yield sits at 3.5%.

McDonald's Corporation franchises and operates McDonald's restaurants in the United States, Europe, the Asia/Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, Canada, and Latin America. The company's restaurants offer various food items, soft drinks, coffee, and other beverages, as well as breakfast menus.